Presents data on the rising prison population in the United States and the cost effectiveness of maintaining them. Suggests that the incarceration of drug-only offenders makes no economic sense and that there are less costly alternatives. (JOW)

Provides money-saving ideas for effective training methods. Suggests the importance of a needs assessment, minimizing the amount of time employees spend in training, keeping employees out of the classroom by giving them job aids, using self-study courses, and making on-the-job training more useful. (JOW)

Analyzes cost effectiveness of the Pathways to Teaching Careers, a program that supports an alternative route to university-based teacher certification primarily for noncertified teachers, paraprofessionals, and Peace Corps volunteers. (PKP)

Examines the use of debit cards for parking meters at the University of Maryland. Installation planning, budgeting, and cost benefits are discussed. (GR)

Describes how at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the first top-level research institution to mandate laptop computers, professors are still seeking a role for them in class. The requirement for laptops has yielded savings for the institution, but educational gains are evolving and hard to measure. (EV)

Describes benefits of using zero-based budgeting to improve resource-allocation decisions linking costs to student performance. (PKP)

The author argues that, although the standard principles level treatment of fixed and sunk costs has problems, it is logically consistent as long as all fixed costs are assumed to be sunk costs. As long as the instructor makes that assumption clear to students, the costs of making the changes recently suggested by X. Henry Wang and Bill Z. Yang in…

Higher education has a long history of self-reliance; institutions provide all the services they need internally, even if they are located in close proximity to other institutions. According to Frank Rhodes, president emeritus of Cornell University, twentieth-century higher education drew strength from consisting of independent, free-standing, and…

Technology product procurement can be a daunting task for a college or university--especially a smaller institution--to accomplish alone. Perhaps this is why schools are tackling it by banding together. When it comes to purchasing technology, a little help from friends is the key to economies of scale, which frequently net schools the best…

This article reports the reasons for returnees coming back to China. The author states that, the first reason is that they want to return to mainstream society. Second is the homeland sentiments of the Chinese. The most important reason, of course, is that the opportune today for China's development and many opportunities exist. Whatever the case,…

Recent years have seen a number of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division II institutions seeking reclassification to Division I-AA and Division I-AA institutions moving to Division I-A. Yet, other schools that seem like natural candidates to reclassify have resisted. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of the…

Public school advocates have argued that homeschooling "costs" the school system money through lost per-pupil taxpayer funding whenever a child is homeschooled rather than public schooled. In fact, home school students benefit school districts in the long run by relieving them of the far greater total costs of educating them. In Nevada,…

Regardless of the role technology plays in a school district, district personnel should know the costs associated with technology, understand the consequences of technology purchases, and be able to measure the benefits of technology, so they can make more informed decisions. However, determining costs and benefits of current technology or…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe two social simulations created to assess leadership potential and train leaders to make effective decisions in turbulent environments. One is set in the novel environment of a lunar moon colony and the other is a military combat command. The research generated from these simulations for assessing…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to show that the quality of learning in German apprenticeships can be increased without raising costs under certain conditions. It starts with a contextual description of apprenticeship in the dual system, showing that this insight is of central importance, since employers in Germany are increasingly…